Vivace
Vivace is a desktop environment for PhotonOS. It is a set of extra RPMs like xorg-server, dwm, firefox...
Source code
git clone https://github.com/vmware/vivace.git
cd vivace
git submodule update --init
Build
make packages
Pre-built Vivace binaries
Pre-built binaries for Vivace are available through the following YUM repository that can be configured on your Photon deployment.
Vivace YUM repository
Create the file "/etc/yum.repos.d/vivace.repo" with the following contents.
[vivace]
name=VMware Vivace 3.0(x86_64)
baseurl=https://dl.bintray.com/vmware/vivace_$releasever_$basearch
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/VMWARE-RPM-GPG-KEY
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
skip_if_unavailable=True
Install
Vivace provides RPM meta package which will bring dwm, terminal and firefox.
tdnf install vui